Washington Week with The Atlantic, PBS’s weekly political roundtable featuring outside journalists, is described on their website as "known for its depth, balance and civil discourse." No, it's not. It's known for red-hot hate of Donald Trump.
They were particularly harsh on candidate Trump and running mate J.D. Vance this week, perhaps prodded by guest host Laura Barron-Lopez, the most liberally biased reporter on the PBS News Hour.
Barron-Lopez asked The Atlantic’s Adam Harris about the candidates’ approach to immigration and saw a cliched and exaggerated “a campaign of fear, policy of fear” on Trump’s side, which will benefit Harris, who “can only go up on her immigration policies.”
Barron-Lopez fretted over X posts by Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana attacking Haitian immigrants and asked “What does this say about the state of the GOP?”
Heidi Przybyla of Politico suggested words would lead to massacres.
Heidi Przybyla, National Investigative Correspondent, Politico: ….this is blatantly anti-immigrant because these Haitian workers are here legally fulfilling jobs that are needed. But there are no consequences in the party right now for comments like this. Yes, he was told to pull it back. But, overall, we’re in a climate now of unprecedented political violence. We haven`t seen something like this since the 1970s. And it’s worse by several metrics. Because in the 70s, we were talking about property damage, not assaults on individuals. We didn’t have like the shootings of black shoppers in supermarkets in Buffalo.
She's so bitter that Trump being shot in the head is a so-what moment, it's being exploited (unlike the media assigning blame for supermarket shootings to the Republicans):
So, right now, the whole narrative about political violence though, has been driven by Trump saying, well, I've been the target of assassination attempts. But what the data shows is that a lot of the political violence is actually taking place on American people, on the American citizens, on election officials, the threats against election officials. But none of that is resonating within the GOP. They`re not disciplining their own. And so there are no consequences, and comments like this just continue to be made.
Both Collins and Benjaminson (a new face) accused the GOP of “dehumanization” of all refugees, while Benjaminson and Przybyla seethed over Vance.
Wendy Benjaminson: ….if there is one person among the four of them, well, maybe Trump too, but if there`s one person who needs to make up some ground with female voters, it is J.D. Vance. He is the one who started the childless cat ladies thing. He is the one who said, ‘okay, my wife`s not white, but I love her. She`s a great mom,’ which is I wouldn`t appreciate that if they were talking about me. He has, you know, spoken out against abortion rights and against reproductive rights….
Speaking of “misinformation,” Vance was not insulting his wife. Here’s the exchange, courtesy of the liberal fact-checkers at Snopes, which took place on Megyn Kelly’s podcast after Kelly forwarded leftist MSNBC host Joy Reid’s smear that Vance only valued “white stay-at-home moms.”
Vance: That's just so disgusting Megyn. I love my wife so much. I love her because she's who she is. Obviously, she's not a white person, and we've been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha. She's such a good mom. She's such a brilliant lawyer and I am so proud of her….
Bitter Przybyla even managed to denigrate Vance for an elite accomplishment liberals have long celebrated among Democratic politicians, one which many journalists share: Graduating from an Ivy League school.
Przybyla: ….I think Walz has kind of previewed what he`s going to do with attacking Vance, like you`re not really an everyday man. You did Hillbilly Elegy, but you hang out with Silicon Valley billionaires, and he went to Yale. And, by the way, I`m here to defend the honor of all women who own cats.
